Ahmad Sharawi | November 21, 2024

Lebanon’s willingness to assent to a U.S.-proposed ceasefire offers a pathway to ending the current war, but significant challenges remain. Chief among these is Israel’s demand for operational freedom, a point of contention fiercely opposed by Hezbollah and its patron, Iran. Tehran’s endorsement of a ceasefire will provide Hezbollah with the space to regroup and fortify its capabilities. Compounding these concerns are doubts about enforcement given the historical inability and unwillingness of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to effectively curb Hezbollah’s activities.

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Former Congressman Mike Rogers, who is reportedly in the running to be Donald Trump’s FBI Director pick if Chris Wray is fired, has a history of propagating Russiagate and supporting FISA surveillance.

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Peloni:  Mike & Gadi provide a detailed discussion regarding the leak scandal upto about 30min (start at 7min 30s).

Peloni:  This is an important article.  Notably, the resolution brought before the UN was vetoed by the US earlier today, but the points made clear in this article and the suggestion that Trump should make his own inflections crystal clear as related to this topic, both remain highly relevant.

Fight.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, November 18,2024

Peloni:  Is this another deal struck with the Swamp?  How can it be reconciled to be anything else?

By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | November 20, 2024

From running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination himself, former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has proven himself a Trump loyalist who commands the president-elect’s trust.  Announcing Burgum’s appointment at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump said, “He’s going to head the Department of Interior, and he’s going to be fantastic.”

However, given Burgum’s background, affiliations, and views on important issues, is he the right choice for Secretary of the Interior?  Trump has also made him the nation’s energy czar by appointing him chairman of the newly formed National Energy Council.  But is Burgum fit to chair the council and, under that post, take a seat on the National Security Council?

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Peloni:  Highly revealing analysis contrasting the distinctions between Nazism and Islam.

The horrors perpetrated by the Nazis were concealed from the wider Nazi population for very good reason: they were not cruel enough to stomach it, despite their rabid anti-Semitism. This is why comparing Hamas to the Nazis makes no sense at all.

By Seth Frantzman | November 18, 2024

A rocket launcher found in southern Lebanon by the IDF’s 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade. (IDF photo)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expanded operations in Lebanon, increasing precision strikes in Beirut targeting Hezbollah members and widening its ground offensive. The two-pronged effort comes as discussions about a potential ceasefire continue. Hezbollah also continued launching rockets at Israel, killing one civilian and wounding others on November 18.

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Peloni:  Indeed, this deal, whatever it ultimately contains, will only serve to constrain Israel from acting in its own best interest as the Shiite dominated Lebanese faction serves its Iranian masters intent to dominate and destroy Israel, much as was the result the previous deals.  The international community is not only incapable of responding to an Iranian threat to Israel in Lebanon, they have demonstrated quite clearly that they also have no interest in doing so.  The best deal is no deal at all.  Severing the head of Iranian aggression in Tehran is the only deal worth negotiating.

Israel does not need a “deal” in Lebanon. Not only is a “deal” unnecessary, but also it would be a net negative. There should be no intermediaries or constraints on Israeli operations in the territory to its north.

— Tony Badran (@AcrossTheBay) November 18, 2024

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Walter Block | November 18,2024

There have been ongoing campus protests against Israel, with participation from Arab students and members of the public. Unfortunately, some Jews, both on and off campus, are also involved in these protests. But what about vigils or demonstrations in support of Israel, the only Jewish state in the world? In universities dominated by radical leftist ideologies, such events are unlikely to find much support. And it’s doubtful that Arabs would join such efforts.

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Trump promised to overcome the US Deep State, but Israel’s Deep State is much worse and more disheartening because it is undermining the Jewish State from within in the midst of an existential war.

Avi Abelow | November 19, 2024

Avi Abelow    Courtesy

The news cycle here in Israel is moving fast, in a turbo-speed crusade to try to take down Netanyahu.

Basically, the ongoing Deep State agenda to take down Netanyahu is similar to the ongoing Deep State agenda in the US to take down Trump, and probably also motivated by an effort to stop Netanyahu from being in power at the same time as President Trump, to prevent the work they would be able to do to together to strengthen Israel’s position in the region and the world.

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It was only when modern-day Israel was established in 1948 that the Arabs began using the term “Palestine” as a way of attacking Israel’s legitimacy.

Moshe Phillips | November 19, 2024

Golda Meir at Kibbutz Shefayim in central Israel, on July 24, 1950. Credit: Théodore Brauner/National Photo Collection of Israel via Wikimedia Commons.

Moshe Phillips is national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education group

When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador-designate to Israel, appears at his Senate confirmation hearing, he’s sure to run into some harsh questions from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and other critics of Israel concerning some of his past comments about Palestinian Arab identity.

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CHERIE ZASLAWSKY 

Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency in a landslide victory in both the Electoral College and the popular vote, including a sweep of all the swing states and majorities in both the House and Senate, he’s in an ideal position to carry out his program to undo the damage of the Biden/Harris nightmare, and to Make America Great Again.

But for him to do that, as America’s top executive, he needs to have the right team in place.

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog

Today’s tweet is filled with information.

The King of Jordan delivered his farewell speech yesterday in the sham Jordanian parliament.

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Peloni:  The importance of this development is very telling.  It seems that the Deep State allies in the Congress are apprehensive about what might be investigated and exposed by a Trump pick to lead the FBI.

The only reply to such a Faustian gambit as this should be a curt and easy NO!

Sundance | November 19, 2024

The “Big Ugly” was always a description of the battle that few understood.  You cannot be betrayed by your enemies; that happens when your allies reveal themselves against your interests.  Majority Leader John Thune will play his cards carefully in order to extract maximum damage.

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The Brothers’ Struggle: Secrets of What’s Happening in the Palaces of the Bani Zayed, Part One

?? There is a hidden struggle for power in the UAE among the sons of the late Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, and a hidden conflict against the Al Maktoum family, rulers of Dubai, especially His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.

?? The key figures in this struggle are His Excellency Mohammed bin Zayed, the President of the UAE; His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed; and His Highness Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed.

?? Mohammed bin Zayed is a man with ambitions to become an emperor. He was born a billionaire, seeking self-fulfillment. The one who has capitalized on Mohammed bin Zayed’s ambitions, as I have mentioned multiple times, is the Palestinian politician Mohammed Dahlan, an advisor to the UAE’s president, who manipulates the president as if he were a mere toy.

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Martin Sherman | November 19, 2024

Could France under the Macron government be on a head-on collision course with the newly elected Trump administration following his sweeping victory earlier this month?

There is good reason for making the case that this might well be so.

Ominous Indications

Indeed, an ominous indication of the deterioration of French policy and its divergence from US-led Western consensus could, arguably, have been evident in a recent decision to release the long-imprisoned Lebanese terrorist, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.

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Tommy Steiner | SIGNAL | November 14, 2024

Since the October 7th massacre in southern Israel and the outbreak of the war in Gaza, China’s leadership has conveyed outright support in word and deed for the Iran-led “Axis of Resistance.” The display of strategic vulnerability by Iran and its proxies since mid-August appears to have prompted Beijing to pause and reassess. Upon return from the National Day holiday in early October, China’s official messaging on Iran noticeably shifted. This adjustment has been further underscored by commentary from Chinese policy advisers specializing in the Middle East.

As events on the ground led to a review of its Middle East policies, China is refraining from outright public support of Iran and the Axis of Resistance it leads, at least for the time being. This is borne out by the striking difference between China’s response to Iran’s missile and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attack on Israel in mid-April and its reaction to the latest ballistic missile attack on Israel by Iran on October 1. Similarly, the Chinese response to Israel’s retaliatory strike on Iran on October 28 reflected this revised approach. While the Foreign Ministry refrained from condemning Israel per se for its most recent attack, one of China’s most respected Middle East policy advisers all but justified it in an op-ed published in the China Daily.

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